What is the best way to improve your balance? Learn easy yoga poses you can do anytime, anywhere using props such as folding chairs, a wall or blocks and straps or better yet a partner.
Learning to balance makes you present, centered, and relaxed in difficult situations.
Balance also means more than standing on one foot. I often comment during Yoga class that we have the opportunity to create balance in every aspect of our lives. If you exercise hard one day you need to do the opposite to relax and be still in order to balance out the hard exercise you did. If you worked hard at work all day you need to find time to create stillness and quiet to balance out the hard work you did. If you run you need to sit still, if you cycle or spin you need to lie down and relax, if you have an argument you need to create quiet time. If you go on a spending spree you need to spend some time saving money. Life is all about creating a sense of balance.
3 ways to improve your physical balance. Number one: look to the distance. Look away from you off to the horizon. If you are feeling seasick the instructions are to look at the horizon. If you are relearning how to walk the instructions are to not look down. The same applies for balancing on one foot, look to the horizon and not down at the ground. For where you look you will go. If you look to the horizon you will soar if you look to the floor down you will go.
Number 2: your eyes need to relax. If you are distracted by outside sounds, objects moving around then you will focus on the distractions that keep you balancing but if you allow your eyes to go soft focus only on yourself and pointed straight ahead balance will improve. You no longer feel the need to pay attention to distractions and are free to focus only on yourself.
Number 3: Breathe and be okay with what is. If you lose your balance breathe and be okay with where you are at now. So often I see people fallout of balance curse or laugh louder than normal and joke about how they can't balance. If we fall out of balance the only solution is to take a deep breath and get back right away without comment or judgement. There are plenty of times later to comment but by attempting to create balance in our lives and our bodies we need to move forward right away, commenting and judgment is a backward energy. If we fall out of balance and focus or create a production about being out of balance we stay out of balance. If we fall out of balance and breathe and get back into balance without commentary judgement or criticism our balance will return.
Happy balancing.
Troy Cox
Sun Salute Yoga
